Changing worlds with storytelling

Help to get to Ghana to document the powerful work of an NGO teaching bee-keeping to farmers! 

As many of you know, I am passionate about many things, but travel and creating positive change through storytelling photography are two passions at the top of my list. Consequently, after a long hiatus due to Covid travel restrictions, I was ecstatic when Photographers Without Borders offered me a new assignment. I was thrilled when I learned that I would be traveling to Ghana to tell a story involving my newest passion, beekeeping! 

There are “endless” economic and environmental benefits for West African farmers as they learn beekeeping. For example, the community partner I will be working with is promoting sustainable beekeeping to combat poverty and to build sustainable, resilient livelihoods. I couldn’t have asked for a better fit.

During my two-week assignment, I will be documenting the organization’s core work in Ghana’s central cashew growing zone and in Afram Plains. While there I will be meeting with newly trained beekeepers and visiting farms where crop yields have been boosted due to bee pollination. I will then follow these beekeepers during honey harvests while seeing honey and beeswax go all the way from hive to jar.

My subsequent photo story will illustrate the organizational, environmental and economic, “wins” the community is experiencing; collaboration, nature-based and regenerative solutions and both honey and wax to sell as a commodity. 

Curious about Photographers without Borders? Here's a bit more info! 

Every year, our Associates (photographers and videographers) donate hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of their time to document the work of our Community Partners (grassroots NGOs, charities and community initiatives) that are making real change in this world where it is most needed. By honoring and witnessing humanity at its best, we hope to inspire and forge new narratives of what is possible. 

You can help by supporting our photographers! 

Each of our Associates is given a GroupRev fundraising page by PWB upon being selected for an Assignment. We offer this platform to make our programs accessible to all and enable our volunteer Associates to subsidize these necessary assignment-related expenses:

• Assignment Cost
• Airfare
• Visa
• Vaccinations
• Emergency Medical & Travel Insurance

The following expenses are the sole responsibility of the Associate:

• Privately-arranged travel / Equipment & equipment insurance / Software / Extra baggage fees / Donation perks / Clothing / Postage / Postcard / Prints / Etc.

We are a community of storytellers uniting to support our community partners on volunteer assignments through the PWB Program, and inspire new generations of storytellers through PWB School and our other initiatives and resources. Our mission is to make storytelling more accessible for communities around the world who are contributing to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and UNDRIP. PWB is registered as a charity in the United States with 501(c)(3) status and is registered as a not-for-profit organization in Canada. All donations are calculated in US Dollars and are tax-deductible for Americans and Canadians with US income.

PWB is not responsible for any donations made outside of these pages.

Any overage amounts raised on GroupRev will be donated and disbursed 50/50, between the Associate's assigned cause and PWB.

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All donations are calculated in US Dollars and are tax-deductible for Americans and Canadians with US income.